DOCUMENT USW ED 162 698 JC 760 616 AUTHOR Yarritgton, Roger, Ed. TITLE Internationalizing Community colleges. Report of a Wingspread Conference. INSTITUTION American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, Washington, D.C.; Johnson Foundation, Inc., Racine, Wis. PUB DATE Oct 78 NOTE ,104p.; Report of the 1S78 Assembly convened by the 'American Association of Community and Junior Colleges in cooperation with the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin (May 22-24, 1978) AVAILABLE FROM American Association cf Community and Junior Colleges, One Dupont Circle, N. 5., Suite 410, Washington, D.C. 20C36 ($5.00) EDRS PRICE EF-$0.83 Plus Postage. EC Nct Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS Community Colleges; Cultural Exchange; Curriculum Development; Curriculum Enrichment; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; International Education; *International Educational Exchange; *International Programs; International Relations; *Junior Colleges; Student Exchange Programs ;Teacher Exchange Programs; Technical Assistance ABSTRACT Papers in this document provide a perspective on the views of two-year college educators and other educationalleaders cn the relevance and place of international educaticn now and in the future. Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr., discusses the communitycollege's role in international education and outlines the policy cf the American Association of ;Community and Junior Colleges as tell as reviewing the activities of other organizations including the Council on International Cooperation in HigherEdUcation and the International Council on. Adult Education. Ecses S. Koch presents rationales and models for internationalizing the college curriculum. Seymour Eskow outlines, the educational tenefits of sendingstudents and facultyabroad in terms of increasingunderstanding among peoples of the world and involving individuals inparticipant and observer relationships. Fred E. Harrington emphasizes the need for community colleges to increase their involvement in providing technical assistance services abroad. Daniel R. EcLaughlii describes the cooperative relationship between Asnuntuck Community Collegein Enfield, Connecticut, and Chien-Hsien Junior College of Technology in Chungli, Taiwan, Republic of China. The iecommerdations of the1978 Wingspread Assembly and a list of participants are included. (MB) /. **####*###*#########*#*#######*#0004*########*#######*#########*####***# Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***************************************4******************************* Internationalizing Community Colleges "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS U S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY EDUCATIOW & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF William Harper EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO- DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED. PROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN- ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS TO THE EDUCATIONAL. RESOURCES STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC' AND SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF USERS OF THE ERIC SYSTEM." EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY 00 Report of a. Wingspread Conference The Johnson Foundation Racine,Wisconsin Internationalizing Community Colleges Report of the 1978 Asembly convened by The American Associati67n of Community and Junior Colleges in cooperation with The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread Racine, Wisconsin May 22-24, 197, . Edited by Roger Yarrington Copyright 1978 American Association of Community and Junior Colleges One Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 410 Washington, D.C: 20036 Printed in U.S.A. Price: $5.00 Contents Page Preface 5 Henry M. Halsted Introduction 7 Roger Yarrinkton International Dimensions of Com nity Education -. 9 Es d J. Gleazer, Jr. Internationalizing the Curriculum 30 Moses S. Koch Educational Benefits of Sending Students and Faculty Abroad 46 Seymour- Eskow --Providing_Technical_Assistance Services Abroad 73 Fred H. Harrington A Model Agreement with a Foreign Junior College 83 ,Daniel R. McLaughlin Deport of the 1978 Assembly 92 Participants 101 4 Preface The Wingspread conference on "Inter- national Education and the Community College" was convened by the American Association of Community;And Junior Col- leges (AACJC), in cooperation with The Johnson Foundation. Since its founding thbre than eighteen years ago, The Johnson Foundation has given international education an important place among its areas of program interest and activity. Over these years the Founda- tion has cooperated with many organizations to convene at Wingspread meetings that have examined a wide variety of topics and issues relating to international education. Topics of past Wingspread conferences have in- cluded: the Foreign Student at the GraJuate, Undergraduate, Community College and Seondary School Levels;fthe= UNESCO Associated Schools Project; the Internation- alBaccalaureate;Bi- LingualEducation; Cross-Cultural Education; Assessment of Global Literacy; International Educational Exchange;Study Abroad;International Cooperation in Curriculum Development; and.Technical Assistance in Education Abroad.Bi-national and multi-national Wingspread conferences have been held on many educational topics: In the spring of 1978 a World Conference -'on Innovative Higher Education brought together at Wing- spread rectors and chancellors of universities from over thirty, countries. This experience of one foundation in a brief decade -symbolizes the pace of move- ment in the world toward international and global perspectives in education. Interna- tional education, once primarily a peripheral interest of collegegand universities, is moving closer to center stage. In May 1978 The Johnson Foundation welcomed the opportunity to cooperate with AACJC- id' a broad national review and assessment of international education in community and junior colleges. This report, edited by Roger Yarrington, VicePresident. of AACJC, contains the papers presented at Wingspread and the recommendations that 'were -drafted by the conference participants. It provides a per- spective on how a group of community and junior college educators and other educa- tional leaders view the relevance and place of international education in the community college now and in the days ahead. The infor- mation, ideas and suggestions in this report will make it a useful resource for petsons interestedin the expanding international dimensions of community college programs and services. Henry M. Halsted Vice President-Program The Johnson Foundation 6 4 4 Introduction In October 1977 a colloquium on foreign students 1n United States community colleges was held at Wingspread, theconference cen- ter of The Johnson Foundationin Racine, Wisconsin. The proceedings of that con- ference are published in The Foreign Stu- dent in United States Cornmunity.and Junior Colleges (College Entrance Examination Board: New York, 1978). Discussions at the 1977 colloquium indi- cated the need for additional conferences to address other aspects of international educa- tion programs in community colleges. The, Johnson Foundation agreed to assist AACJC) with two additional Wingspread conferences.. This monograph reports on the firstof these which was held May 22-24,1978, at Wingspread. Background papersdiscussed the international dimensions of thecommu.: nity college, internationalizing the curricu- lum, student and faculty exchanges,technical assistance programs, and a model agreement with a foreign junior college. Theback- ground papers are reproduced here. Alsoin- cluded are the recommendations formulated at the meeting. The Assembly reportand rec- ommendations were draftedby Becky Jacobsen and reviewed by the Assembly par- 7 ticipatts,at the closing session. Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr., president of AACJC, sets the tone by making the case for internationalizing community colleges. Moses S. Koch, author of the paper on in- ternationalizing the curriculum, is president of Monroe Community College in New York. Seymour Eskow, who writes about student and faculty exchanges, is president of Rock- land Community C011ege in New York. Fred H. ,Harrington, who describes Opportunities for community colleges to.provide technical assistance abroad, is director of International Linkagei in Higher Education,a study pro- jectinWashington,D.C.DanielR. McLaughlindescribesacomprehensive cooperative agreement involving Asnuntuck Community College in Connecticut, where he is president; The conference to follow the one report- ed here will be held at Wingspread October 25-27, 1978. That meeting willconvene re- presentatives of community colleges in the United States and from institutions in as many as 20 countries abroad interested in short-cycle post-secondary education, educa- tion for work, lifelong learning systems, literacy education, distance learning, and sharing of information and cooperative en- deavors with community colleges in the United States. We greatly appreciate the assistance of The Johnson Foundation insupporting these conferences. Additional assistance has eenreceivedfromShellCompanies Foundation in support of this publication. Also, we are indebted to the authors of the papers that appear in this report and to the WingspreadAssemblyparticipantsfor their contributions to the continuing dia- logue on the international services of com- munity colleges. 11 Roger Yarrington Vice President, AACJC Xr International Dimensions of Community_ Education -By Edmund J. Gleaner, Jr. A careful reading of the morning news- paper may be more significant forthe com- munity college planner than periodic perusal of his professional